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Dietrich Hoecht

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Location: United States Clayton, GA
Occupation: piddles in metal, roams the woods
Age: 81
#1   2014-04-12 16:42          
folks,

a week ago I received a note from Wayne Coe saying that Tim Kris died. If you have attended a Campbell School course you may have had a chance to meet Tim and admire his shop and museum in Brasstown NC. Tim was a great sponsor of first class blacksmithing and was quite accomplished himself. On his property he liked to show off his expansive well equipped shop, including a huge 2-phase driven power hammer, a complete pattern shop and a museum with a vast array of anvils from 2000 years ago until today. In his three-legged dog pub he liked to be gracious host and freely dispensed Guinness in this dry county. He and Judy Berger from the Blue Moon Forge have created a book featuring his anvil collection. Apparently Tim was going blind. Now he sees the light above us.

Dietrich

lindahr

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Location: United States
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Age: 73
#2   2014-04-18 14:46          
Yes, I was aware he had died. I saw a notice of his estate sale last year in an antiques magazine and found out after asking around that he had passed. I fondly remember several visits to the shop and the pub, where I was still after many years able to pull a beer with a perfect head --I worked my way through college primarily as a bartender. I sent away for the auction catalogue, but was too late to drive to Asheville for the sale. The catalogue has some wonderful pictures of items from the sale. It was a wonderful collection and its a shame it had to be broken up. I understand some of the lots of assorted tools went for very reasonable prices.

Linda
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